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Designing bacteria for the environment


Recombinant bacteria for environmental release: what went wrong ...

Since the early 1980s, genetic engineering of soil bacteria has been claimed to have an extraordinary potential for remediation of environmental pollution, as ...

Toward a “Bacterial Turn” in Art, Architecture and Design | CCCB LAB

Recently, however, prokaryotic single-cell organisms have been rehabilitated within the trend of a post-anthropocentric approach to deal with ...

A review of recent advances in engineering bacteria for enhanced ...

CO2 capture by bacteria is an appealing option for climate change mitigation and immediately creating bio-based commodities with added value ...

Designing healthier cities with good bacteria | Newsroom

“Exposure to many bacteria in the environment is actually good for us”, said lead author Kate Matthews, a University of Adelaide graduate and ...

Architectural design influences the diversity and structure of the built ...

The collection of microbial life that exists indoors—the built environment microbiome—includes human pathogens and commensals interacting with ...

The potential importance of the built-environment microbiome and ...

New models of design are required to balance maximizing exposure to microbial diversity while minimizing exposure to human-associated diseases.

Recombinant bacteria for environmental release: what went wrong ...

In addition, robust design concepts imported from process engineering provides fresh approaches to the challenge of designing microorganisms á ...

Think Small: Architecture and the Microbiome - Architect Magazine

Some bacteria create calcium carbonate via bio-mineralization, forming rock while pulling CO2 out of the atmosphere. For example, Durham, N.C.-based Biomason ...

Microbiology of the built environment: harnessing human-associated ...

These have focused primarily on how the design and use of our built spaces have shaped human-microbe interactions and how the differential ...

Probiotic architecture brings good bacteria to building design

Bacteria can make our buildings healthier. · Microbial architecture, otherwise known as probiotic design, finds ways of incorporating living communities of ...

Making microbiology of the built environment relevant to design

However, architects are also under mounting pressure to create more sustainable buildings. Scientists have a critical opportunity to make the ...

Physiochemically and Genetically Engineered Bacteria: Instructive ...

Physiochemical engineering provides a low-cost and easy strategy to alter the physicochemical and biochemical properties of bacterial and ...

Green Infrastructure Design Influences Communities of Urban Soil ...

This GI design specifically accommodates dramatic pulses of water that influence the bacterial community composition and diversity through the ...

Designing surfaces that kill bacteria on contact - PNAS

In contrast, the number of viable bacterial cells did not decline significantly after spraying on such common materials as ceramics, plastics, metals, and wood.

Holiday Lectures on Science: Bacteria's Deadly Design - YouTube

... bacteria communicate with and control their environment. Rockefeller University's C. Erec Stebbins studies the methods by which bacteria ...

Viruses, Bacteria and Fungi in the Built Environment - Elsevier Shop

This important new reference work explains the microbiology of buildings and disease control in the built environment to those who design and implement new ...

Design your own bacteria! - Let's Talk Science

What might it need to survive in its environment? Plan – Which ideas are your best? How will you show people what your bacteria might look like? Reflect & Share ...

Bacteria | Dezeen

Stories about design using bacteria to make new materials, fabrics and other objects or to generate electricity and light.

Good bacteria: Why sustainability engineers are turning to microbes

Like the microorganisms that play a vital role regulating our health, engineered bacteria could help heal the environment by making ...

Designing Cities for Healthier Microbiomes - The Dirt (ASLA)

Buildings could be designed to kill off pathogenic bacteria and support the healthy microbes in our biomes. Wener said a recent Brazilian study ...